Next Book Group meeting will be August 13th, 2024, at 4 pm in the library.
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Reading Selection for discussion
at the August Meeting: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times). |
Reading List:
June 2024 Walking with the Great Apes Sy Montgomery *No Audio version available Skipping July - Happy Summer! August 2024 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr *Libby, Audio CD September 2024 Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl *Libby, Audio CD October 2024 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz *Audio CD November 2024 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky *Audio CD December 2024 The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams *Libby, Audio CD January 2024 A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage *no Audio available to lend February 2025 A book by Paul Auster Moon Palace or Leviathan Alternates: Major Petttigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Thunderstruck by Erick Larson Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean * Titles with audio versions and where to find them. If you would like an Audio CD version, please ask to order it ahead of time. Past Selections: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Bel Canto by Ann Patchett |